Apr 14 2009
Sean Hannity NEEDS Alan Colmes!
Video: Did Bernie Goldberg “smack down” Sean Hannity? by Ed Morrissey
Why?
Sean Hannity is running amok. He’s bugging me more and more everyday…
Full disclosure: (if there was a doubt) Let me say I am a big fan of talk radio and the assorted conservative talking heads—Limbaugh, Hannity, O’Reilly, Levin, etc. I agree with most, but like they themselves proclaim, when someone they support misfires or steps out of line I will call them OUT on it.
Hannity over the years has been going in a direction I don’t care for. Don’t get me wrong we see the world in a similar way, but I find more and more that his rhetoric has become stale, canned, and rehashed over and over again and some of his arguments have become just transparent, like the Left—unwilling to accept and acknowledge when the other side does something that is actually good for the country. Obama’s steering the ship right now—he gets credit for the right conclusion to the pirate/hostage situation over the weekend. End of story!
Now, I get the reason for this, you need to keep repeating it all the time just like the other side, because people forget and are easily persuaded if someone isn’t beating the drum they stop paddling or start listening to another drum.
I don’t like it because I’m smart enough to draw my own conclusions and I don’t need someone else to tell me how or what to think.
So, what Alan Colmes did was at least keep Hannity somewhat honest. The other side was at least presented. I would agree that Colmes had weaker arguments, but they were also arguments I didn’t agree with so…
Now, it’s all Hannity, no other side and even when people who agree with him disagree, he refuses to accept other slightly different views than his own—it and he comes off as a cheap salesman.
Sorry Sean, that’s how I see it—you need to get Colmes or some other opposing view to balance the platform or it will get worse.
Now, the problem with calling one of your own out is that the other side will try to use it against you. Not the point. Hannity still has the values and philosophy I believe in, just some of the rhetoric needs to be adjusted.
The willingness of calling out one of our own is one attribute that I feel defines us, makes us different than the Left. Example: They won’t even admit, condemn, or call out someone they support even if it’s a womanizer who takes sexual advantage of 21 year old because of his position, makes use of government property to suit his own needs, betrays his family and the country he steers with lies to our faces, lies in court to cover it up, gets caught, gets impeached. No, they won’t do that.
Ask one right now and they will come up with a dozen excuses for horrible behavior they would never accept from their own spouse, father, boss, or adversary.
If GWB did that—Wowie! I would be the first to call for his resignation.
